Originally Posted by
jejb
Good video/article. Thanks. A question that occurred to me from each. Can you tell the system to not dial all the way up to 10 when going to a location, or when it drifts off the spot and wants to go back? That's one of the complaints I hear, that it goes nuts on the speed if it gets blown off a bit. So being able to tell it a max setting would probably alleviate a lot of that.
Man, I sure wish MK had had the foresight to marry the copilot and the ipilot instead of violently divorcing the products. For example, to use the iPilot on my PD V2, I'd have to give up the foot pedal. I don't use it alot, but I'm not willing to be without it, either. Just some very odd design decisions going on there. Given the real world bass fishing scenarios most of us fish in, driving the motor manually is going to be the thing we spend the vast majority of our time doing. I guess MK just dismisses us copilot die hards and says to use the foot pedal instead, since fishing with one hand doesn't work well. But that kind of flies in the face of the remote control pluses the system brings to the table. I can be facing any direction, standing anywhere in the boat, and run my TM. It'd be tough to give that up.
Here's another question for you. I can go down a shoreline here on Beaver Lake and be in 80' FOW and only a rod length from the bluff wall. 50' further on, I might be in 15' FOW at the same distance from the same bluff wall. If I locked onto 15' as the depth I wanted to fish at and went off a huge and sudden under water drop off , would the iPilot try to take me into the bluff wall looking for 15'?